DID YOU WRITE THE SONG? WHAT WAS YOUR INSPIRATION BEHIND IT?
“I love this song so much. I feel like it just… It’s so empowering and I really feel so honoured to be a part of a television show that’s really inspiring and has always been very empowering for our young fans, and I feel like although this song is Lea Michelle and not Rachel Berry, it really does have the same message of really being a powerful, empowering song, and that’s who I try to be for my fans and the people that watch my show. It just feels like me, and I love singing it and I love singing, you know the message.”
WE ARE ON THE SET OF YOUR FIRST MUSIC VIDEO, WHAT IS THE THEME BEHIND THE VIDEO? HOW INVOLVED WERE YOU IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS FOR THE VIDEO?
“My dream job is to be a music video director concept-ish person. I always am listening to songs and like coming up with the concepts for the videos. It’s like my favourite thing to do so I was really excited to get to shoot this video and come up with some ideas. And our director Robert is so amazing and we came up with this idea of just being in this sort of in a very uncomfortable space feeling very trapped and claustrophobic, and finally finding the freedom and the strength within yourself to bring yourself to a place of enlightenment and freedom and strength in the end. So I think that using the two locations of the broken down warehouse into the clear, white walls open space is our way of sort of illustrating going from that really dark place into the light, literally.”
WHAT MAJOR COLLABORATIONS CAN WE EXPECT ON YOUR DEBUT ALBUM? WHAT WOULD BE YOUR DREAM COLLABORATION?
“Well I got to work with SIA so much on this album which was so incredible, and Bonnie McKee who I love and adore. As well as Christina Perry, who I think is like, the jam. Um, I wanted to say a curse word (laughs) so I said ‘jam’ and then it sounded really corny (laughs). But I mean I’m such a fan of music, I love you know finding new artists and stuff like that, but I think my god that I praise is Alanis Morisette so to just lock myself in a room with her you know… Of course Barbara Streisand but that’s, you know, that’s another level.”
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY CAN
SOMETIMES PRESSURE ARTISTS TO BE SOMETHING THEY’RE NOT, HOW HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO STAY TRUE TO YOUR ARTISTRY? WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN SOME MUSICIANS FOCUS MORE ON THEIR IMAGE THAN THEIR MUSIC?
“In picking the songs and in working on this album, I really you know, I made sure that everything we chose to sing and the songs that we wrote – everything fit and blended well together to have a really good cohesive feel here. It’s been such an incredible, incredible journey. It’s taken over a year to complete this album, but it’s come together as something that is incredibly personal and means so much to me. It’s the story of a period of my life that also means a lot to me, so I’m really glad that I have it for the rest of my life now.”
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54